Come gather
'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you has grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to winFor the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come gather
'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit waterboarding
Around you has grown
And accept it that soon
You may be drowned by a wave
If your life to you
Seems worth saving
You must be protesting
Or you'll drown like a slave
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come bloggers and writers
Whoever you may be
Don't let them blight us
We must remain free
You can't speak too soon
Or you'll be drowned too
Since there's no tellin' who
Will be tellin' on you
When torture is normal
And may happen to youFor the times they are a-changin'.

Go senators, congressmen
You betrayed our land
You betrayed us for pay
We all understand
You want us repressed
Because we protest
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
Your sons and your daughters
In camps they will end
Waterboarded and tortured
On the highest command
Justice is dead
Injustice's ragin'
Forever detained in chains and in pain
Secret detention just is insane
For the times they are a-changin'.

The law has been passed
The curse has been cast
The camps will be filled
With folks to be killed
Just cause they thought
Not as they ought
Real justice is
Rapidly fadin'.
No trial = no right:
Stand up and fightFor the times they are a-changin'.

If you allow torture to be institutionalized, you have taken
leave of civilized society and of civilized laws and institutions, and
you have taken leave of state servants you possibly could trust or
legally oppose without undue personal risk, and you will have allowed bureaucrats
and politicians to become your absolute superiors in force and power,
who can do anything they please with anyone within their power. You
will have lost your freedom and your defence in law or morality, and
you will have turned into a slave of the state, its politicians and
their bureaucrats, police and military men. (See e.g. Montefiore's "Stalin
- The Court of the Red Czar", for how this works out in practice,
in the name of the highest moral ideals, also: Do never be so naive,
stupid or ignorant as to believe that those out to enslave or abuse you
will honestly own up to their degeneracy. The worst atrocities have
been committed for the purportedly best of moral, political or
religious reasons, by self-appointed saviours out for power or profit.)

P.S. Corrections, if any are necessary, have to be made
later.
Today: People seem to like this. I've added section 2 in clarification,
and may change some in the versification, but probably not before
tomorrow. I did change made->passed, and added "=" pronounced "is".

And the standard constant link to this text is this,
with today's date
in the title, preceded by "NL" (for Nederlog, of which this text is a
small
part).

1.
Ten reasons why ME/CFS is a real disease by a professor of medicine of
Harvard.
2. Long essay by a professor emeritus of medical chemistry about
maltreatment of ME.
3. Explanation of what's happening around ME by an investigative
journalist.
4. Report to Canadian Government on ME, by many medical experts.
5. Advice to psychiatrist by a psychiatrist who understands ME is an
organic disease
6. English mathematical genius on one's responsibilities in the matter
of one's beliefs:

7. A space-
and computer-scientist takes a look at psychology.
8. Malcolm Hooper puts things together status 2010.
9. I tell my story of surviving (so far) in Amsterdam/ with ME.
10. The directory on my site about ME.